The University of California Board of Regents has approved an eight percent tuition increase Thursday. U-C students say they’re concerned because tuition keeps going up.

This year, tuition at U-C schools jumped 32 percent. Next fall,
it will increase another 8 percent. The smaller amount raises
tuition by 800 dollars a year. U-C's Lynn Tierney says the
university system relies on state funding, which has been
drastically cut over the last few years.

"Last year we had furloughs. In the last couple of years
we've laid off over 3000 people, we've cut back the office of the
president. We've cut it almost in half."

Tierney says the tuition increase won't affect more than half of
U-C students, since they have scholarships. But Claudia Magana,
President of the U-C Student Association and a third year student
at U-C Santa Cruz says the continuing tuition increases are a
burden on students.

"We know that the state is in a really difficult situation
but I think what would have been great would be to pull the fee
proposal from the budget until we know what the state has to offer
instead of selling us so short so early."

Hundreds of students protested outside the Board of Regents
meeting earlier this week, and more than a dozen were arrested.